Anne Sæbø

Tasks performed

• Subject Specialist in Scandinavian Studies and Media Studies
  • Teaching and advising in library services with literature searches and information criticism (contact me to set up a time)
  • Research support (literature searches, database development, data management, digitalization, digital research methods)
  • Promoting and communicating new research (contact me to explore options for events)
  • Responsible for the library's collection in this field (contact me regarding your suggestions)

Background

• Associate professor in Norwegian and Nordic studies, St. Olaf College, USA (1999-2009)
• Independent researcher and book writer, blogger and freelance writing in film and gender studies (2009-), visit homepage here
• Senior lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo (2014-2015)
• Guest researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo (2005-2006)
• Chair of the Department of Norwegian and Nordic studies, St. Olaf College (2002-2003)

Education

• Ph.D. in Comparative literature with theory and criticism, focus on Nordic literature (2000), University of Washington, USA
• Certificate in Pedagogy (1999), University of Washington
• M.A. in Comparative literature (1997), University of Washington
• B.A. in Comparative history of ideas (1996), University of Washington
• Cand. Mag. with a major in history of ideas (1996), University of Oslo

Books

• After Pornified: How Women Are Transforming Pornography & Why It Really Matters (Zero Books, 2012)
• The Übermensch comes to Scandinavia: Rereading Hamsun and Dinesen in the light of Nietzsche's philosophy (dissertation; UMI, 2000)
• William James and Friedrich Nietzsche's Revaluation of Truth and Life (thesis; University of Washington, 1997) (WorldCat OCLC: 40255513)